La crise survenue au cours des années 1970 a eu comme conséquence de mettre à mal les différents systèmes de protection sociale. En effet, élaboré pendant une période de forte croissance économique et fondé sur la norme du plein emploi, le modèle d'emploi fordiste français a été...

Background: Measuring and understanding the level of health literacy serves as a starting point for developing various policies in health care. The consequences of weak health literacy competencies are severe; they result in riskier health behaviour, poorer health status, more frequent emergency...

The main consequence of globalization is to accelerate the process of concentrating the wealth all around the world. Nevertheless, it did not contribute to solve the contradictions of capitalism which is not able to boost a long-time accumulation. Therefore, there are tremendous pressures to...

International comparisons of living standards are still primarily made using GDP per capita, in spite of recurrent criticism that this is a partial and ill-founded measure of social welfare (Sen). Alternative measures abound, such as the Index of Human Development computed by the United Nations...

Pour mieux répondre aux nouvelles préoccupations de la population et favoriser le développement durable, les gouvernements sont désormais en faveur d'un large partenariat avec la société civile et le secteur privé. Or, c'est aux niveaux local et régional, au plus près des problèmes et...

This study on the functioning of retail electricity markets for consumers in the EU is the follow up to the first market study conducted in 2009/2010, and published by the European Commission in 2010. The objectives of the current study are to investigate if a well-functioning electricity market...

L'article donne le compte-rendu condensé de l'atelier de discussion sur les peuplements mélangés qui a eu lieu dans le cadre du colloque "forêts mélangées : quels scénarios pour l'avenir ?" / The article reports briefly discussions that took place during the workshop on "mixed stands:...